problem starting crontab services

[Jon Barber]

hello cygwin gurus

i can't get crontab services to start.  i just followed the instruction 
from running cron_diagnose.sh version 1.5, and there were a number of 
things it reported wrong that i tried to fix.  the final problem is when 
i try to start cron, i get the following error:

        $ cygrunsrv --start cron
        cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32
        error 1062:
        The service has not been started.

attached is the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'

any help very much appreciated

jon barber

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my entire log of steps i tried is this:

following the instructions here:  
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00379.html, which 
involves successively running a diagnostic script to find config errors

    * i downloaded and ran the cron_diagnose.sh script
    * it first reported the following

        The permissions on the file /etc/passwd are not correct.
        Please run 'chmod +r /etc/passwd', and run this script again.

    * when i looked in /etc, i saw that many of the files were owned by
      "thadmin", which was the administrative account we originally used
      to setup the machine.
    * so i chown'ed most of those files to Administrator, and chmod'ed
      them +r, and ran the script again. 
    * it still complained that /etc/passwd had incorrect permissions -
      turns out /etc/passwd is "-rwxr-xr--+", so i modified the script
      to accept the + sign in hopes that doesn't matter
    * it then reported the following

        The permissions on the file /etc/group are not correct.
        Please run 'chmod +r /etc/group', and run this script again.

    * so i chmod'ed it +r, and ran the script again. 
    * it then reported the following

        The group membership of your crontab file should be SYSTEM,
        as documented in the file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README.
        You can change this setting with:
                 chgrp SYSTEM /var/cron/tabs/Administrator
        Please check your crontab's group membership, and
        run this script again.

    * so i did so, ran the script again, and it then reported

        This script did not find any errors in your crontab setup.
        If you are still unable to get cron to work, then try
        shutting down the cron service, uninstalling it,
        reinstalling it, and restarting it.

        The following commands will do that:
          $ cygrunsrv --stop cron
          $ cygrunsrv --remove cron
          $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
          $ cygrunsrv --start cron

        If the cron service does not start, try deleting the file
        /var/run/cron.pid and then repeating the commands above.

        If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem
        to cygwin@cygwin.com.  Please include a copy of your crontab,
        ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'.

    * so i rebooted the computer, since there were hung cronjobs, and then
    * i did all the above steps.  but, i get the following error trying
      to start the service: 

        $ cygrunsrv --start cron
        cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32
        error 1062:
        The service has not been started.

    * so i sent a copy of the output of cygcheck to the group


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